Hampshire - Paranormal Database Records

Flower Stealer

Location: Southampton - Delbridge's Florists, Bedford PlaceType: PoltergeistDate / Time: 1997Further Comments: Over a six month period, hundreds of carnation blooms were removed from the plants. Security was updated several times, and the floor lightly dusted to detect footprints, though none were ever found. The local police, probably speaking off the cuff, blamed a poltergeist.

Footsteps

Location: Southampton - Detached private residence, Portswood areaType: PoltergeistDate / Time: 1930sFurther Comments: Owners of one house in this area where reported to have experienced disembodied footsteps which walked around, windows which would fling themselves open unaided, and tapping.

Molly

Location: Southampton - Dolphin Hotel, High StreetType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: A former cleaner at the hotel, the shade of Molly is said to always materialise at two in the morning, drifting a couple of feet above ground level.

Pagan Help Required

Location: Southampton - St Mary's StadiumType: CurseDate / Time: November 2001Further Comments: Cerridwen Dragonoak Connelly was called in to cleanse this stadium after it was believed the location was cursed or jinxed. After the blessing, the football team went on to their first win at their new home.

Frightened Dogs

Location: Southampton - Tudor House MuseumType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2000sFurther Comments: Staff say that there is a room where dogs refuse to enter and another room in which many people have had paranormal experiences.

Free Top Ups

Location: Southsea - Apsley House public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: October 2009Further Comments: The resident ghost was nicknamed 'Reedy', and was reported to add an 'extra inch of beer' to half empty glasses.

Strange Shadows

Location: Southsea - Kings TheatreType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: July 2006Further Comments: Staff and visitors to the theatre have reported seeing weird shadows and hearing strange noises. Wessex Ghost Hunters investigated the site and the team's medium declared the theatre to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who committed suicide.

Blonde Figure

Location: Southsea - Royal Marines Museum, EastneyType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: December 2008Further Comments: A worker at the site reported briefly seeing a blonde haired figure in a dark blue uniform, similar to one worn by marines during the First World War. Other staff are said to have unusual experiences on site.

Slim Woman Crossing

Location: Southsea - Zebra Crossing, Elm GroveType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2010Further Comments: A driver stopped at the crossing to allow a woman to cross the road. She was in her 30s or 40s, wearing a short skirt and knee high boots. As she started to cross, the driver heard the car behind sound its horn. The driver glanced in their rear view mirror for a second, before looking back to the road - the woman had vanished.

More Monks

Location: Stubbington - Church of the Holy Rood, CroftonType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Twentieth centuryFurther Comments: A phantom monk is said to walk around this area. He may be connected to the sighting at the nearby Manor Hotel - an underground passageway is said to connect the two buildings.

Crying Lady

Location: Swanick - StationType: Post-Mortem ManifestationDate / Time: 1971Further Comments: Waiting for the last train on a Sunday night, a man sat by a distressed woman who, between sobs, repeated 'I can't go back'. The train pulled up; the man reluctantly left the crying lady and leapt aboard. Arriving at his station, and feeling guilty about leaving her, the witness phoned the police, gave her description and asked if someone could check she was okay. The following morning, the man read a story in the local paper about a woman who had died after being hit by a train near Swanick station on Saturday night - the accompanying photograph was of the upset lady he had encountered twenty-four hours after she had died.

Priest on Horseback

Location: Tangley - Tangley House (destroyed by fire in 2000, since rebuilt)Type: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Disputed by the owners of the site in 2014, local myths say that the site was haunted by a priest on a black horse and a grey lady on a white horse.

Monks

Location: Titchfield - Abbey and A27Type: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Twentieth centuryFurther Comments: As well as being observed drifting around the abbey grounds, this phantom monk is said to appear in the backseat of cars driving along the nearby A27, though he quickly vanishes once seen.

Tall, Dark Stranger

Location: Totton - Testwood House (aka Rumasa House)Type: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 20 Oct (reoccurring) by one account, though not always the case, last seen 1972Further Comments: This enigmatic figure stands at the entrance to the driveway, and though it is thought he murdered a young lady in the property. Those who have seen the man say he is dressed like an old coach driver, which would explain the occasional sounds of a phantom coach passing through the area.

Cursed Motorway

Location: Twyford - Twyford Down (now area of the M3)Type: CurseDate / Time: 1992Further Comments: A week after a motorway construction team disturbed the graves of eighteen men, some two metres tall, two of the men suffered fatal heart attacks and a night watchmen dropped dead at his post. People protesting against the construction of the motorway pronounced the incidents 'the curse of the giants'.

Mr Chicket

Location: Upham - Brushmakers Arms public houseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Chicket was murdered for his money while staying at the pub. Even though this event occurred a couple of hundred years ago, his shadowy form still flits around the site.

Chickett

Location: Upham - Brushmaker's Arms public house, Shoe LaneType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Late twentieth centuryFurther Comments: Murdered for his vast wealth, Mr Chickett can sometimes be heard counting his former fortune. Phantom footfalls have also been reported in the building.

Shepherd

Location: Upton Grey - Road from the northType: Crisis ManifestationDate / Time: June 1993, around 10:00hFurther Comments: The apparition of a shepherd with two dogs was spotted walking along this road, witnesses recognising him as a relative. They later found out the relative was seriously ill in hospital, and a few days later he passed away.

Guilty Rector

Location: Vernham Dean - Chute Causeway & Fosbury CampType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: This Rector convinced all villagers suffering from plague to leave and set up a camp on a nearby hill, telling them he would soon bring supplies up to them. However, once they had gone he 'forgot' about them, and the camp starved to death. His ghost now walks towards the top of the hill, always fading from view just before he arrives at the former campsite.

Countess of Salisbury

Location: Warblington - Castle and Churchyard ruinsType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: Margaret Pole, the Countess of Salisbury, walks around this area without her head. The shade of a smuggler is also reported to frequent the castle.

Sebastian Pitfield

Location: Warblington - Vicarage along Pook LaneType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: Eighteenth centuryFurther Comments: Having taken the lives of his children by strangulation in 1677, this man of the cloth was hanged for his crime. His shade was still being seen in his former abode a hundred years later.

Pipe Smoker

Location: Waterlooville - FerndaleType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 2010Further Comments: Haunted by a drover who committed suicide by hanging himself from an oak tree (or so a legend says), the figure is reported still to hold a pipe which leaves a smell of pungent tobacco even after the phantom vanishes.

The First Owner

Location: Waterlooville - Hopfield HouseType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: UnknownFurther Comments: It is said that the spirit which haunts this building has driven two previous owners to suicide, as he only wanted his family and their descendants to live here.

Female Hitchhiker

Location: Waterlooville - Hulbert RoadType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: November 1976Further Comments: Apparently seen several times, this girl stands in front of incoming traffic, vanishing when hit. She is said to be the ghost of a hitchhiker who was hit by a car along the road.

Roman Soldiers

Location: Waterlooville - Wecock Farm estateType: Haunting ManifestationDate / Time: 1970sFurther Comments: Shortly after the completion of this housing estate in 1974, reports came in from several areas of poltergeist-like activity. Some witnesses reported phantom Roman troops in the area.